These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.
Ethan Laughman is a recruitment, marketing, and communications specialist at the University of Georgia's College of Environment and Design. Among the few who have read every Flannery O'Connor Award-winning volume, he has collaborated closely with the series' authors in compiling these new anthologies.
Catherine Brady is the author of Curled in the Bed of Love, which won the 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her story collection The End of the Class War was a Book Sense 76 selection, and The Mechanics of Falling received the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Her nonfiction works include Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction and Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres. She has taught in the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. Her stories have appeared in such publications as The Cimarron Review, Other Voices, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Short Stories 2004.
Philip F. Deaver is the author of Silent Retreats, which received the 1987 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Bread Loaf. His short fiction has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1988 and has been recognized in Best American Short Stories 1995 and The Pushcart Prize XX. Deaver taught in the English Department at Rollins College and was permanent writer in residence there. He was also on the fiction faculty in the Spalding University brief residency MFA program.
Greg Downs has been the least successful high school varsity basketball coach in Tennessee, the editor of a muckraking weekly newspaper on Chicago's South Side, a karaoke performer profiled in the Boston Phoenix, and a reporter on the tail of a fugitive cult leader. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is an assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. Downs's stories have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Meridian, Chicago Reader, and Sycamore Review.
Amina Gautier is the author of At-Risk, which won the 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of two more award-winning short story collections, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. She was the 2018 recipient of the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Best African American Fiction and New Stories from the South and in numerous literary journals including AGNI, Boston Review, Glimmer Train, Oxford American, and Southern Review.
Jacquelin Gorman is the author of The Seeing Glass, a memoir. She grew up in a family of physicians in the shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a great deal of time in Maryland's hospitals as a girl. She has practiced as a health-care lawyer in Los Angeles and as a hospital chaplain, and she is currently the program director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her stories have appeared in Slake Magazine, Kenyon Review, ScreamOnline, The Journal, and Reader's Digest.
Lisa Graley is the author of The Current That Carries, which received the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is an associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she holds the Friends of Humanities/LEQSF Regents Professorship in the Humanities. She is the author of the book Box of Blue Horses, which won the 2012 Gival Press Poetry Award. She was awarded an ATLAS (Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) sabbatical in 2009-10 by the Louisiana Board of Regents. Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, the Georgia Review, and the McNeese Review.
Tom Kealey is the author of Thieves I've Known, which received the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is also the author of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets and Writers and The Writer. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Tom is a former Stegner Fellow andhas taught creative writing at Stanford University since 2003.
Peter Lasalle, 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winner for Tell Borges If You See Him, is the author of eight previous books, including both novels and short story collections-most recently Sleeping Mask: Fictions and The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling. His fiction and essays have been selected for several award anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Fantasy, Best American Travel Writing, Sports Best Short Stories, Best of the West, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas, and Narragansett, in his native Rhode Island.
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of What We Do with the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of two other collections of short fiction, This Life She's Chosen and Swimming with Strangers. Her short fiction and essays have appeared widely in journals, including One Story, the American Scholar, Ploughshares, and North American Review. She is a recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and teaches high school English.
T. M. McNally is the author of six books of fiction, including his first, Low Flying Aircraft, which won the 1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, DoubleTake, Yale Review, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. He teaches at Arizona State University.
Gina Ochsner is the author of The Necessary Grace to Fall, which received the 2001 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Her stories have appeared in such publications as The Bellingham Review, Image, The New Yorker, Tin House, Iron Horse Review, and The Kenyon Review, and have received numerous awards, including the Ruth Hindman Foundation Prize, the Raymond Carver Prize, and the Chelsea Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of The Hidden Letters of Velta B, The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight, and Pleased to be Otherwise, among other books.
Lori Ostlund's first collection of stories, The Bigness of the World, received the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. It was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was a Lambda finalist, and was named a Notable Book by the Short Story Prize. Her stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, ZYZZYVA, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and New England Review, among other publications. In 2009, Lori received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She is the author of the novel After the Parade and lives in San Francisco.
Melissa Pritchard is the author of twelve books, including a biography and collection of essays. Her first short story collection, Spirit Seizures, won the 1988 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Carl Sandburg Award, the James Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and was named a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. A five time winner of Pushcart and O. Henry Prizes and consistently cited in Best American Short Stories, Melissa has published fiction and non-fiction in such literary journals, anthologies, textbooks, magazines as The Paris Review, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Agni, Ecotone, The Gettysburg Review, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Nation, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. A recent Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, Melissa's newest novel is Tempest: The Extraordinary Life of Fanny Kemble (2021). www.melissapritchard.com.
Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles, which won the 2014 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His stories have appeared in such publications as West Branch, Five Points, Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, and Story. He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
David Walton is the author of Evening Out, one of the first collections to receive the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1983. He is also the author of Ride, a novel, and another collection of short stories, Waiting in Line. He lives in Pittsburgh and is retired from teaching literature and composition at the University of Pittsburgh.
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